Whenever
I need a smile I look at this picture of me taken over 36 years ago
when I wanted to have 'that' look--Dashiki and Afro--okay, you can stop
laughing now!

It's been a crazy week and I don't know where to start. Oh, I guess with getting a new dvd/vhs recorder/player combo and in hooking it up  somehow I 'lost' 48 of my
61 network/cable stations plus the 13 remaining were in black and white.

In
2004 I had to give up my 'baby' that I had for 23 years. At first it
wasn't hard not having a car as I could depend on Allen, andoccasionally
, Gino, plus we had public transportation right outside our residence
and via bus I could basically get everywhere. In November of 2008 they
cut out the route and I felt like a prisoner Saturday, Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday. I could, and still do, depend on Allen Wednesdays, when he
would take me on my round of errands, and Fridays when we would go to
movies. Once in awhile Gino was available and a couple of times John.
On Thursdays, my food shopping day, at first Larry would take me then I
arranged a deal with Cookie being able to borrow her car but that
stopped very suddenly without warning.

After
asking around I was able to make an arrangement with Norman but I
wasn't able to use his car last Thursday, luckily Gino was free, but I
didn't know until a couple of hours ago if I would be able to use it
tomorrow when Norman left a message on my answering machine that I
could. I spent yesterday sort of depressed about the whole car
thing--without a car and/or available transportation you feel hopeless,
powerless and like a prisoner. You are unable to get a haircut when you
want/need one or know when you can make an appointment with your doctor
or just be able to get away for an hour or two.

There
is a lady who hasn't used her car for over a month and I talked about
using it on Thursday and, once in awhile, but very seldom, on a Tuesday
with, of course, compensation. She was all for it but she has to get a
new battery  and make some repairs. Another month later and I am still
waiting.:O)

In
any case it really is comforting to know that Allen would have come
over tomorrow and taken me shopping--don't know what I would do without
him as a good, caring friend.

Well, even with the 'downs' there is always 'ups' and with me it usually revolves around food! (OMG, I know I am old--my 'ups'--and that is NOT a pun!!!--use
to revolve around sex!) Yesterday Jill took me for lunch at
Tropics--will be writing a review about the restaurant--and today Allen
and I had lunch at Sweet Tomatoes--for some reason I don't feel depressed anymore!!!